Deep Rock Galactic's Hardest Boss... 

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I think the hardest miniboss was actually your team repetitively dying. Good playing dude!

A Driller can help trivialize the Tyrant-weed fight in a few ways. It can help to dig fox holes to fight the sprouts and protect yourself from the projectiles. They're also weak to melee, so a Driller can drill under it and drill into the core from below for big damage when it's exposed.

Does the OMEN tower count? Because I would definitely say that gives the korlok a run for its money

Bet-C has killed me more once she's "helping" than when she's "purposely trying to kill you" T-T

I lost a haz 5 extraction to a prospector, it was right at the end of the mission and we we're BEARLY hanging on then someone finds a prospector when kiting a massive hoard and brings all the prospecter spawns as well as a massive swarm back to me and both of our downed teamates as I'm resing one I get taken out by a patrol bot missile immeadiatly and the one who was kiting got got by a goo bomber and promptly swarmed.

The Korlok also just... wakes up to nothing? Sometimes? Like if Bosco/Molly/some *air* _breathes_ wrong near them, they can just wake up and antagonize you when you had no intention of proc'ing their aggression.

I kinda like korlok a lot. It is challenging miniboss but it's still fun. It's also look pretty dope and shiny things that it drops on death are satisfying

Had a korlok spawn on refining directly next to the refinery, and the cave was wide open so it had vision of the whole map except for one side cave. Its safe to say Bitchweed would not allow us to make any progress and that mission quickly went in the dumpster.

tip: when the korlok respawns the sprouts and health pods, it shoots out a bunch of arcing lines like can be seen at 5:37. it helps to try and track where the pink/purple ones go, as those are the healing pods that need to be dealt with immediately. of course those can be a bit of a pain to follow, but it helps to be aware. it also helps if your scout lives.

I hadn't seen a korlok in AGES until yesterday. Was supposed to be your average mission, and then a meteor dropped. And then a doozy of a swarm. And then we found the tyrant weed.. and then a dreadnought spawned after. Crazy mission that was.

Also I had a korlok spawn in an area once where a cliff like 40 feet higher than us was above it. It spawned multiple healing pods in the cliff it was bull shit. We wasted two resupplies of ammo on it.

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Terrain, mission circumstances, ammo status, team member experience, etc. All of these have a massive impact on how hard or easy any of these mini bosses are going to be.

The boss itself can be really easy, if very distracting. The problem comes when your entire team is ignoring you pinging it and doesn't seen to notice they're being shot by something with a boss health bar. I will never forget when all three of my teammates had the situational awareness of stone.

I definitely think the Korlok can be much more situational than the other bosses, if the team is unprepared or the map isn't great. I've had Tyrant Weeds that I could solo, and I've had one recently solo that sucked a lot because I kept running out of ammo (thinking I had enough on me) and had to melee it to death while making sure it didn't heal because it took longer to refill my ammo than it took to heal up. Definitely not as bad as yours, but I understand your pain because it just turns into a slog.

Korlok Weeds do, indeed, end entire careers. Congratulations on defeating such a tyrant. Consider it redemption from the two previous Korlok attempts back at the Unknown Horrors episode.

Honestly the fact that you guys regularly do haz 5 missions at your current playtime is incredible

Ah, you've just unlocked a repressed memory of mine. A while back I got this boss with a random team on a egg hunt mission. Unfortunately, it was in the worst possible terrain: that kind of formation where there are a bunch of spikes sprouting from the ground and make it really annoying to traverse in between or even get out of the hole. Now imagine a bunch of sprouts positioned in a way where you had absolutely no cover because they could shoot from any 3D direction. I guarantee you, I gave my absolute best as gunner. Couldn't do much when they kept jumping in there, not to add to the swarm that also spawned, just to add insult to injury.

The worst time was when it was right next to Doretta, so we had to keep fighting it or we'd lose the mission. We did not have nearly enough ammo. Full team of fertilizer.

This is absolutely true. Both of my hardest missions ever were caused by one of those weeds in a horrible location. It was so bad I installed a recording software in case it happened again and it did so there’s a video out there of that now. I can very much agree with this sentiment.

It's hard because it requires both engineer and driller to use their gear, which most of them dont even have a clue they had it on them 99% of the time

I know how you felt there. I once had to face this boss while watching for the drilldozer. To protect it and fight the vines were such a drag! And of course some would spawn too far or in a previous cave system.

i'd say Korlok 's difficulty just like the Tritilyte Deposit, depends on terrain, a flat ground Korok is a cakewalk, and soo is the Trit, but when you add in elevation, killing healing seeds, bringing bombs tests your team greatly, thats why Tritilyte is usually either 10 secs long, or fail

The real hardest boss was the friends we made along the way

Only reason Korlok is so hard is cause often it spawns in very wierd and cramped areas where its hard to avoid the projectiles (pro tip for the drillers, the sprouts can not shoot when taking dmg, that includes dot dmg so just setting all of them on fire will make it infintely easier for your team). I had a few ones that spawned the sprouts and healing pods in completely different room above the Korlok wich made taking it out very annoying and very ammo intensive

I would agree that Korlok would be the most difficult boss. The one thing I would really change about it is if you're playing with 3 or 4 people, it would change to 4 separated health bars instead of 3. But honestly, even though it's the most difficult, I also think that it's where the other minibosses should stand in terms of difficulty, and reward. The corruptor isn't usually hard, but can be exceedingly annoying when you're low on people (playing solo or with one other person), so I'd want Ghost Ship to slightly increase the difficulty but increase the rewards as well. As of right now, I don't usually consider it even worth it to take out the corruptor unless absolutely necessary, since 3 plague hearts is just half a scrip. I think the prospector and the nemesis should just come with a larger XP bonus, honestly, but both of them can be relatively easy to take out (although prospectors can definitely have some run ending moments, as long as the team is prepared it's a piece of cake).

If I had a nickel for every time a korlok tyrant weed got crushed by a lithophage meteor, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s kind of weird that I’ve seen it happen twice.

The Tyrant Weed only gave me trouble when I was new to the game but now I feel like it's the easiest. Corruptor is definitely the hardest for me because it keeps spewing out all of those annoying patches everyone and also vines and ground pounds.

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Definetly agree, Korlok can hit in all the wrong ways. Unless we count omen tower as a mini boss, hate that thing, easily takes first place. Probably doesn´t help that I usually run with randoms if I play coop. Not that they are bad, but Omen needs coordination

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On a lot of the bosses, it depends on cave layout. I had a fight with the Corruptor in solo. I was in a very tight space with no red sugar. It was a cave bend narrow passage with an open path up. Luckily I was playing Scout so I was able to run up levels to look for red sugar while Bosco kept peppering the Corruptor to little and no effect. I ended up needing nitra to call for an ammo resupply. It was a very long fight. The path was so tight that every time I dropped down to fight I took a lot of damage from the Corruptor.

No clue why but any time i have to fight this boss im suddenly either very low or just out of ammo on everything, i end up just preemptively trying to save ammo by melee-ing all the tentacles

i agree with all your points however personally in my solo missions when i find this, i don't usually have a bad time with it. i think that might be down to the difficulty scaling with player count and that i'm on haz 4, not 5. also might be that gunner has a better time with his shield able to give me breathing room, and of course being gunner to do big dps on damage phases. would be interesting to see how i find it with a squad though, maybe there's more shooters and healers and stuff. great video!

Honestly, this might be a scout thing, but the hardest miniboss in my opinion has to be the driller. 🙂

If you have an engineer and your willing to spend platforms you can make a wall between your uplink and the Tyrant weed if you really dont wanna deal with them, Drillers/Gunners also make them pretty easy with tunnels and gunner just constantly taking down the sprouts.

Korlok is definitely the hardest miniboss (only OMEN comes close and that's only if you don't have a good single target build and an engie who knows what he's doing), but there's a hard counter to it: you can freeze the sprouts. Driller with the cryo cannon (especially with snowball overclock) turns it into a pretty easy fight.

The difficulty of a Korlok weed can go WAY up depending on the terrain where it spawns.

the new corrupter is absolutely NOT the hardest, as the thing that makes the others so hard sometimes is you often have no choice in engaging them meanwhile the corrupter will only start attacking after being hit with lithofoam

Dude this video was awesome, specially for me a greenbeard who's learning the game and his main language is not english. Really helpfull how you explain everything and put subtitles. Thanks man great work!

I actually really like it when you have a good team that work together. But last night, I had a Korlock weed, a corruptor and sheild disruption at the same time. It was a total nightmare 😂 we completely ran out of ammunition and ended up hiding in a hole from the weeds and lithophage and died being swarmed by swarmers 😂

Korlok is giga nuts. I don't remember how many times this shit is just "Now you're going to die, buddy". You were just having fun with your friends, but then you turn into the room, and fucking Vietnam begins. And if you relax for even a second, this shit will just destroy you. Gg bro. ..... Yes, I hate Korlok. Btw, video is great. Thanks for great content!

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Definitely agree about the Korlok. It always eats through half of the team's ammo on a good spawn, but if it spans multiple caves then have a driller or die.

The hardest boss of Deep Rock Galactcic is the cave generation. Last week I had vertically stacked morkite wells in pipe surfing mission. Like, there was one straight down from the minehead, and two more clear on the other end of the caves, one all the way up and the other all the way down hidden behind some dirt

3:03 placing platforms to block projectiles or digging objective down with driller may help a lot

I've had missions end in literally 30 seconds cuz we discovered a Nemesis and got teamwiped by the grabbers I can't say I've ever seen such a brutal Korlok in my 200 hours Some hero-tier gameplay man

Ended up fighting a korlok and a corruptor at the same time the other day on a haz 4, we wiped there and went back out only to be faced with 4+ spitballers in the same room with a contagion spike. Fun times

you could ignore them if you went underground for the uplink. make a bunker under the uplink and hope there's no praetorian+oppressor wave. also, i usually equip the breach cutter on the engie and that thing cuts through a group of underlings decently, not to mention the wave clear consistency of it against normal waves if you find clearing grunts / swarms difficult with the SD

i remember 2 days ago i was in the ice biome and was forced to fight nemesis right after that this a hole spawned and through its phases i got short on ammo and since it was pretty early in the mission i couldn’t call resupply so in its last phase i ran out and it regenerated faster than i could kill his minions which basically softlocked me and made me aboard the mission

One time I played an egg hunt with a rival presence modifier. It was one massive cave that was mostly flat with like a dozen turrets and a tyrant weed. It was projectile hell

I can agree with this from experience, me and my friend were doing salvage and a korlok spawned on a bunch of pillars and a cliff I practically had to solo it as scout and it took like half the mission and a resupply

My first time seeing a Tyrant Weed was in one of those rooms that's just a pit full of pillars, with a cave just above where it would spawn healing pods. We did not survive. We also both seem to have the handicap of a team that has zero self preservation skills lol.

Driller is your friend on this one. Both flamethrower and frost cannon work good, but driller's main feature here is trenches. Korlok not only is stationary, its spitting weeds also have fixed spawning points. Meaning that, ideally, before triggering it you should dig a few holes (like foxholes mentioned by other people) to hide from blasts. Also, driller can dig to fallen teammates and revive them if he stays alive (which wasn't the case for your team). Throwing axes are good at melee range if there's a need for quick damage burst (for the occasional healing pod or Korlok itself when it opens). Overall, it's somewhat akin to the Caretaker or OMEN - preparation and coordination are almost half the work. Of course, a cursed cave generation can wreck even the stongest team. Good luck!

I had a mission where there was a small ledge super high up in the cave, the ledge was just big enough for this guy to spawn on, and we were only on hazard 3 but this made it impossible to kill because we couldn’t stand up there without getting shredded and we couldn’t kill it from below. This is definitely one of the harder bosses

I don’t find the Korlok that difficult, probably because Electricity (and apparently other DoTs as well) stop the sprouts from attacking, and I run the Stubby and Shard Diffractor on Engi

My favourite korlok spawns include: Ride under where a refinery would drop. Some random hole directly where Dotty drives around, and finally next to a drop pod evac...

Don't mind me, just coming here to reconfirm that the Korlok is horribly awful to deal with. Had a Haz4 On-site Refining mission in Azure Wealds where the Korlok was *immediately* awoke and alerted by the platform rig landing right next to it. We then spent a good 20 minutes attempting, but fully failing, to manage to take it out, we couldn't even start the pipe-laying because it was so close to the rig. GRANTED, this was not helped by the fact that we were a group of 4 drillers, 3 with sludge pumps... but even with how veteran-seasoned we 4 dwarfs were, we just could NOT take it out.

korlok kill was clutch esp after the 1 hp movement away from those bugs. gunner trivializes korloks (in my experience) from the dps dump. great vid taylor 👍

I remember fighting this thing as soon as I got out of the drop pod my teammates were 2 drillers and my build was meant for crowd control so the boss chewed through our ammo and had only my platform ammo left

I fully agree with you. I see a korok sprout and I stop and sigh. Depending on the terrain, how many bugs there are, and your weapons and team- it can be an easy fight, or a near impossible one.

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I find it depends on two factors: How long you've been in the mission (wave size and frequency) and also terrain generation. I can think of at least two occasions where i've lost a mission two a combination of these factors and advising against doing the korlock but the team want to go for it regardless. I'll always go with the team decision because it's more fun but for 1500 xp and 1050 creds it's hard to walk away from.

How i see it the korlok in haz 5 having good placing knwoledge and a scout with the zukov with the embedded explosive magazines ( i think it was called) and born ready pop 4 entire mags not reloading and at the fifth pop it and well it will just dissappear, thus at that way i'll say it requires less things to break since you don't push it further into its phases, how i see it bet-c is harder if you trigger it and let it roam as glyphids will just ignore it allowing it to gun you down with that damn laser of a rifle it has. :b

Yeah Korlok can definitely be rough. We were on an elimination mission and one popped up at us. We were fighting it and someone accidentally triggered the dreadnaught. Fighting a dreadnaught and korlok was damn near impossible. So many deaths but we somehow persevered. Insanity

3:09 platform gun cover solves that issue. Or driller makes a bunker under the objective.

I remember a Korlok has extended a 4 dwarf mission to an hour long suffering marathon. It was in a deep pit so everyone fell in it

I had the drop pod hit a korlok at the start of an egg hunt. We did not finish that egg hunt. It was so far up, no one but the scout could reach it.

They call them TYRANT Weeds for a reason.

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Driller digs under it puts C4 makes boom then drills it's booty when it opens up, the drills crit it like crazy taking out 2 hp bars on haz 5 the first time it opens and the second time it opens it's dead.

03:20 Engineer can create a plascrete wall or the driller can slightly lower the whole zone with C4 or both 06:12 It's almost easier to dig yourself in, instead of building aplascrete wall. As you have seen stacking can take a "long" time which you may or may not have.

I was on haz 2 with a tyrant weed and right next to it was a rival turret spawner. There were at least 10 of the shooting weeds at once and those were accompanied by sniper turrets. Took all 3 Bosco revives and about 30 mins to kill it.

I've had 3 Korloks in my last 25 missions or so, all of them on cliffs with oversight of large rooms. All of them were absolute nightmares to fight.

I once had one spawn in a suuper tight and verticle area, like multiple layers of small chambers. If i was playing solo it just wouldve been impossible, especially since i was a gunner. Once it even spawned a healing pod in a room above us we had to dig to

Being in this situation too on engie and i agree. Korlok can be a nasty, tough one, with greenbeards. Failure is always near and you scratching for nitra with dead teammates. But victory is very pleasurable on this kind of hard missions.

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Tyrant weed can be the hardest or easiest depending on loadout and room formation, I main scout, and so often i had to carry cause it was on the ledge at thee roof or just in a very vertical room. But if the driller has fire and/or the room is wide and flat. Its easy

You can cheese korloks using Embedded Detonators on the Zhukov and Born Ready Born Ready lets you reload without detonating, letting you stack potential damage until the little explosive indicator pops up, letting you instakill it once you expose the core by reloading normally

Korlok Tyrant Weed is generally the worst but I had one encounter with a Lithophage Corrupter that was worse. Firstly it was in Hollow Bough which is never good. Secondly the cavern me and online randoms fought it in was basically vase shapped (very steep cliffs with little area to stand on but lots of space at the very bottom). Because of how the corrupter basically can hurt you via its lithification trail, that meant being above this thing was a no go because the small spaces would be dangerous. However I did not forsee this and placed down the rock pox tools asap on one of the higher platforms. About 15 collective deaths later and the thing was finally down but it was a pain for me an my team. Also I believe as we were depositing core samples in Molly we got a swarm alert on Haz 4/5.

I agree with the tyrant weed as the hardest it ends runs so easily just because all my teammates run over to it and do it but the shooty weeds just deal so much damage

Personally any boss can be hard or easy, it all depends on the caves gen and bits of rng, once a player gets to know the game and that they will soon be equipped with the knowledge onto how to beat them all. I’m not to sure on the tyrant weeds healing pods spawn decide but I’d assume it’s up to rng

These thumbnails are fire and obviously the video is pretty good too

once fought a korlok weed where it was at the top of a hill and wveryone except for a very dead scout were stuck at the bottom getting bombarded

Weirdest thing is that like a day or two before seeing this, my team had gotten 3 korloks in a row. We started turning down the hazard rating from 5 after the second one because of how grueling they were.

I agree on korlok. Omen is deadly, but its always optional, doesn't start on its own and is timed so you don't have terminal ammo bleed from it constantly healing. Omen is tougher mechanically as its harder to juggle all the different threats/tasks to take it down, but a bad placed/timed kolock can kill a mission easy

As scout, you can grapple to it, power attack, and unload both shotgun shells into it and using the second special powder shot to fly away (you fire the first on on the ground). You deal a LOT of damage that way, and since you're barely there for three seconds it's surprisingly safe.

Started playing for a week had mission with randos where Korlok spawn near a cliff, we spend like 45 minutes dying and getting up in the end we decided to just finish the main objective and dip leaving it be.

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I I play mostly solo, while I try and convince my friends to join me. And yesterday I had a Korlok spawn on a similar situation, and boy was it hard to get rid off. Having to deal with it and several waves of regular swarms (one of which was a full mactera swarm) was a fun nightmare that I barely survived. Karl must've looked over my shoulder that night!

tyrant weeds on flat areas are still pretty easy for me, its the ones on the edge of a cliff thats annoying, and the sprouts are also in a similarly hard to reach area

I had a tyrant weed spawn on an arch way off the ground in sandblasted and got the bright idea to drill the arch out to try and insta-kill it which did not work and left it suspended the air making it almost impossible to kill as solo driller and losing me the mission.

I fought one solo the other day and it was spawning healing pods in some other cave completely closed off above it. I had to go mining vertically to find the place. Just, pink beam coming directly from above through solid stone. lol Ended up losing the mission because my Gunner couldn't make it to the drop pod. Cave was a nightmare and something knocked me off a long zipline into a giant pit. Couldn't find my way back up amongst the swarm.

Hey, the prospector is actually very difficult. Korloks can drain your ammo on very vertical maps (or sit above a refinery and prevent depositing, damn things), and sure BET-C will be a bit of a pain always, but prospectors can run _anywhere_ and are much faster than dwarves. And they never stop spawning large groups of bots and swarms of shredders if they get away before that shield goes up, and they are tanky as all hell which means a team caught unawares can lack the coordinated firepower to focus it down quickly. By comparison the korlok's projectiles are easy to dodge and the pods and the sprouts which are actually relevant to the fight can be easily focused due to their independent health pools being rather small. The heart-clam itself is also able to be damaged beyond stage thresholds, because it is a well-designed encounter and not whatever the hell the people adding damage caps to the Caretaker and prospector phases were thinking passed for one. Anyways, that prospector encounter was one hell of an escort mission. Painful thing. But informative, though the cost analysis has yet to come back. Also you can two-cycle a korlok with embedded detonators if you're solo, in case you wanted to try it (not sure if it works on five but it should work on four).

The weed has high damage output, and drains a lot of ammo. It also usually has a pretty defendable position with a pretty wide damage spread able to attack you from every angle at once. I dont know how its spawn mechanics work, but I dont think ive ever seen one spawn outside of a cliff, wall, corner, or behind a bunch of stuff. And usually isnt in an area you dont need too be in and can activate from accross the room, making it a need to kill enemy when it spawns. Even if you kill the thing, you spent a good bit of the caves limited nitra on at least one resupply, but often more especially on higher difficulties, so finishing off the mission might be difficult after that.

The fact this vid shows up on my main page the same day as i get a korlok in hazard 5 and we get completely obliterated by it

i feel like korlok only becomes difficult when a swarm arrives in the middle of the boss fight, since you have to expend ammo to deal with the bugs instead of the weeds, while dodging the pellets from the sprouts. it just becomes a dodging nightmare super fast especially if your main cc, the driller, dies or gets grabbed or something